Bud Comte Orchestra

A 4"x5" Acetate negative, portrait photograph of the Bud Comte Orchestra, David City, Nebraska. Eight male members of the band are wearing dark slacks, blazers, white shirts and knotted dark ties. Jack Eberly is kneeling in front holding a trumpet, Bud Comte is stand behind holding a trumpet with Helen and Theresa Krondak, wearing knee-length, short-sleeve dresses of large floral print, necklaces and bows in their bouffant hair, sitting on the closed lid of a grand piano. Fred Forney, Jack Hain and Fenton Scribner are standing in front of the piano with saxophones, Bernard Hain is standing behind, Art Kovar is standing on the end, Eldon Kracl is standing behind the Krondak sisters.

Bud Comte came to Butler County in 1948. He organized the Bud Comte orchestra in the early 1960s. In 1967, he converted a garage into the Rene Sound Studio and has promoted and recorded many local and prominent musicians and musical groups from around the country.